Three new solo exhibitions are opening at Artinformal Makati this June.
While providing a keen insight into the distortion of experience through its own democratization—a phenomenon in which reproduction results in faulty copies—Nice Buenaventura explores unfaithful imagery in Gallery 1 with Fools will copy but copies will not fool.
Buenaventura translates ideas into a highly organized visual language by constructing images-as-documents. Her current focus on handmade facsimiles of print failure is an ongoing commentary on the conditions for the value of art, using mechanical reproduction and its discards as source material. She is a member of the Fine Arts faculty at the Ateneo de Manila University.
A room creeping with wild growth and fixtures in disarray, yet a lone cabinet stands pristine, containing an idyllic landscape bathed in light, Gallery 2 provides a glimpse of What the Light did Now by Mariano Ching.
Mariano Ching received his education in the University of the Philippines Fine Arts Program and was given a research student grant in Printmaking at Kyoto City University of Arts by the Monbusho Scholarship program. His works have been shown regularly throughout Metro Manila’s galleries as well as in other countries, in Malaysia, Singapore, and France to name a few.
Cris Mora interrogates the notion of barriers in its many incarnations—physical, social or economical—and its various relationships with its enablers, in Border showing in Gallery 3.
Cris Mora is a Filipino-Canadian artist and cultural worker. Mora studied painting, drawing, printmaking and photography at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Mora has exhibited in Canada, Singapore and the Philippines. He currently lives and works in Manila.
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